Telephone-bell-box support.



W. 5 PHlLLlPS.

TELEPHONE BELL BOX SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED MN. 3, P318.

Patented Dee. 1?, 1918.

WILLIAM JOHN PHILLIPS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

TELEPHONE-BELL-BOX SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

Application filed January 8, 1918. Serial N 0. 210,903.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM JOHN PHIL- LIPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Telephone- Bell-Box Supports, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to supports for telephone bell boxes and other apparatus connected with the use of telephones, and has for its object to provide means for attaching such apparatus to the bottoms of desks, tables or other articles of furniture where the will be out of sight but readily accessible for installation or removal for repairs.

Another object is to provide a support of this kind which is adjustable to fit different sizes of desks or table and is provided with interchangeable fastening means adapting it to be secured to fiat or bevgled wooden strips at the bottom of sanitary metal desks. The bell box holder is hinged to the frame portion of the support so that said box may be readily put in place or removed for repairs without disturbing any other part of the device. An auxiliary frame is also provided for the attachment of other apparatus associated with telephones.

The invention will be first hereinafter described in connection with the accompany ing drawings, which constitute part of this specification, and then more specifically de fined in the claims at the end of the description.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views Figure 1 is a top plan view of the support as it appears before it is attached to a desk, the auxiliary frame being shown extended.

Fig. 2 is a detailed section through the lock for the bell box holder on the line TTII of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a side view of the support secured to beveled wooden strips at the bottom of a sanitary metal desk, the open position of the bell box holder being indicated in dotted lines, and

Fig. 4 is an under plan view of the support secured to flat wooden strips at the bottom of a desk.

The support consists of a frame portion adapted to be secured to a desk, table or other piece of furniture, a cage or holder for the bell box hinged to said frame portion, and an auxiliary frame to which other apparatus may be secured. The main frame comprises cross pieces 1 and 2 and telescopic longitudinal pieces of which two 3 and 4 are connected to the cross piece 1 and the other two 5 and 6 are connected to the cross piece 2. The longitudinal pieces 3 and -ii carry guiding loops 7 which embrace the pleces 5 and 6, and said latter pieces carry guides 8 which embrace the pieces 3 and 4, to form the telescopic connection by means of which the frame may be extended to fit different sizes of desks.

The longitudinal pieces 3 and 4 also have secured thereto a pair of cross pieces 9 and 10 to the first of which the bell box cage or holder 11 is hinged at 12. The cross piece 10 has a depending strap 13 through which a thumb screw 14 is passed to engage an internally screw threaded socket 15 in the free edge of the holder or cage 11 for locking the same in raised or closed position as shown in solid lines in Fig. 3. When the thumb screw 14: is disengaged from the socket 15, the holder or cage 11 may swing down to open position,as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3, in which position the bell box (not shown) may be readily inserted or removed.

The frame may be fastened to beveled wooden strips 16 which support the metal bottom 17 of asanitary desk 18, as shown in Fig. 3, by means of hinged leaves 19 secured to the ends of the longitudinal pieces 3, 4, 5 and 6, said hinged leaves being adapted to be arranged at different angles to fit various bevels. When the support is attached to a desk 20 having flat wooden strips 21 for supporting the bottom 22, as illustrated in Fig. 4, the fastening screws 23 are passed through openings 24 in the cross pieces 1 and 2.

In order to conveniently upport keys, wires, or other apparatus associated with telephones, an auxiliary frame composed of a longitudinal piece 25 and two cross pieces 26 and 27 is mounted on the main frame so as to be projected laterally therefrom or retracted within the bounds thereof. To this end the cross pieces 26 and 27 are connected to slide along the cross pieces 9 and 10 by loops 28 which are secured to one pair of said cross pieces and embrace the other pair.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States-is:-

1. A support of the character described having an extensible frame to fit different sizes of furniture, hinged leaves at the ends of said frame to fit beveled strips on the furniture, and a bell, box holder depending from said frame.

A upport of the character described having an extensible frame to fit different sizes of furniture and having end cross pieces with perforations for securing them to fiat strips on the furniture, hinged leaves at'the margin of the frame to fit beveled strips on the furniture, and a bell box holder depending from said frame.

3. A support of the-character described having ,pair of telescopic longitudinal pieces, end crosspieces secured tothe re spective pairs of longitudinal pieces, means forisecuring the end cross pieces to an artiole of furniture, intermediate cross pieces attached to thei'rame, a bell box holder hinged to one of said intermediate cross pieces, and means on' the other intermediate cross piece for locking the holder in closed position.

4;. A support of the character described having pairs of telescopic longitudinal pieces, end cross pieces secured to the re spective pairs of longitudinal pieces, means for attaching the end pieces to an article of furniture, intermediate cross pieces attached to the frame,-a bell boxholder coni WILLIAM 'JGHN PHILLIPS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of'latent s,

Washington, D. G. 

